Category: Videos

RVAsec 14 Video: Philippe Caturegli – Internal Domain Name Collision 2.0

July 16, 2025
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RVAsec 2025 Video: Philippe Caturegli
Chief Hacking Officer – Seralys

Title: Internal Domain Name Collision 2.0
The proliferation of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) has sparked security concerns primarily around phishing and social engineering attacks. However, the emergence of these new TLDs has broadened the attack surface, making it easier for threat actors to exploit other domain-related vulnerabilities. Our research explored another critical but often overlooked vulnerability: Internal Domain Name Collision. During our research, we examined how legacy systems configured before the TLD boom can become susceptible to these collisions, potentially allowing threat actors to redirect or intercept sensitive internal traffic. This vulnerability can have a ripple effect, impacting even newly installed systems that rely on configurations from those legacy systems (e.g. DHCP, DNS Suffix, etc.). This presentation will showcase our methodology for identifying vulnerable domains and present real-world examples of high-value targets at risk, including a major European city, a US Police Department, and critical infrastructure companies.

RVAsec 14 Video: Andrew Case – Using Volatility 3 to Combat Modern Malware

July 15, 2025
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RVAsec 2025 Video: Andrew Case
Director of Research – Volexity

Title: Using Volatility 3 to Combat Modern Malware
Volatility 3 is the latest version of the Volatility Memory Analysis framework, which has been the most widely used open-source framework for memory forensics since its creation in 2007. This new version of the framework is a complete rewrite starting from the first line of code. In this presentation, attendees will learn about Volatility 3’s new features while also seeing how many brand-new plugins can be used to detect a wide range of sophisticated, modern malware. This will include detection of the techniques currently deployed by ransomware and APT groups to evade EDR detection, inject code in a stealthy manner, and perform lateral movement. Examples of the covered techniques will include process hollowing, module unhooking, and privilege escalation. Attendees will leave understanding how to detect modern malware and attacker toolkits along with how to integrate Volatility 3 and its new features into detection workflows suitable for production use.

RVAsec 14 Video: Paul Asadoorian – The Security Professional’s Guide To The Linux Desktop

July 14, 2025
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RVAsec 2025 Video: Paul Asadoorian
Principal Security Researcher – Eclypsium

Title: The Security Professional’s Guide To The Linux Desktop
Want to learn how running Linux as your desktop OS can make your life BETTER? This talk is for you! Every year the Linux nerds say, “This will be the year of the Linux desktop!”. If we put Android and ChromeOS aside for a moment, there has never been such a year. However, I switched to Linux on my laptops in 2016 and fully converted all my desktops in 2019. I’m never looking back. Many of you reading this are already thinking/voicing your opinions. I’ve heard for so many years, “I don’t want to run Linux as my desktop because [blank]”. This talk will dispel the myths and hopefully getting you on team Linux desktop! If you are open-minded about Linux as a desktop, haven’t tried it in a while, worried about Windows 10 going end-of-support in 2025, and want to learn about the benefits of the Linux desktop, this talk is for you. Maybe you even use Linux as your desktop OS and just want some tips and tricks; this is the talk for you. If you’ve already decided that Windows or MacOS is perfectly fine and Linux is just annoying, this talk may not be for you.

RVAsec 14 Video: Travis Altman – Running a proper Purple Team

July 11, 2025
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RVAsec 2025 Video: Travis Altman
Cybersecurity Leader

Title: Running a proper Purple Team
Some folks within cybersecurity have probably heard the concept of purple teaming but what is it like to actually execute or leverage this type of service? What value does it provide? Where should it exist within the organization? What other challenges might you face when performing purple teaming?

This talk will dive into details on how to go from the concept or infancy of purple teaming to executing at a higher level of maturity and everything in between. I’ll walk thru specific examples of purple team exercises then debrief outcomes and values of those engagements. I’ll also walk thru variations of purple teaming (e.g., simulation vs emulation) and describe when a certain variation might be appropriate and when. Last but not least I’ll explain how to perform purple teaming in various environments (e.g., endpoint, cloud, network) and considerations for operating in those conditions.

RVAsec 14 Video: Stacy Aitken – The Importance of an Incident Response Plan

July 10, 2025
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RVAsec 2025 Video: Stacy Aitken
Security Program Manager – Dragnet

Title: The Importance of an Incident Response Plan
An incident response plan (IRP) is a necessity. It can reduce damage, improve recovery time, reduce costs, comply with regulation, preserve evidence, and improve preparedness.

RVAsec 14 Video: Bruce Potter – Keynote

July 9, 2025
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RVAsec 2025 Video: Bruce Potter
CEO and Founder – Turngate

Title: Keynote
Bio: Bruce Potter has been doing cybersecurity for 30 years, which makes him kind of old. Bruce is currently the CEO and founder of Turngate, a SaaS audit log analysis company. Prior to that Bruce served as CISO at several companies including Clear Street, Expel, and the KeyW Corporation.

Bruce is the founder of The Shmoo Group and assisted with running ShmooCon, a cybersecurity conference that ran for the last 20 years in Washington DC. Bruce has done DARPA research, led red teams, broken large networks (in good and bad ways), and even helped bring Internet service to remote parts of Alaska in the mid-90’s.

RVAsec 14 Video: Mike Bailey – Attacking & Defending ServiceNow: A Hands-on Lab for Red & Blue Teams

July 5, 2025
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RVAsec 2025 Video: Mike Bailey
– Rotas Security

Title: Attacking & Defending ServiceNow: A Hands-on Lab for Red & Blue Teams
ServiceNow is a critical enterprise platform, often integrated with sensitive systems and privileged access. This talk explores how attackers can exploit misconfigurations and privilege escalation paths within ServiceNow to gain a foothold in an environment. We’ll walk through real-world attack techniques, from initial access to lateral movement, and demonstrate how defenders can detect and mitigate these threats.

In addition to offensive tradecraft, we’ll cover how to set up a dedicated lab to safely test these attack vectors, fine-tune detections, and improve defensive strategies. Whether you’re a red teamer looking to sharpen your tactics or a blue teamer aiming to strengthen your defenses, this talk will provide actionable insights and practical steps for securing ServiceNow.

RVAsec 2023 Videos: Andrew Hendela & Drew Schmitt

September 11, 2023
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Andrew HendelaAndrew Hendela

Most software supply chain-related tools fall into a few categories: SBOM generation, vulnerability analysis, build policies, and source-code analysis. These do not address the problem exemplified by the SolarWinds supply-chain malware insertion attack. Software Bills of Behaviors provide an understanding of what the software is doing and how it has changed providing a defense against Solarwinds-style attacks.

About Andrew – Andrew has over a decade of cybersecurity experience leading teams tackling hard challenges. His technical expertise involves automating a wide range of problems, including cyber attribution, malware analysis, and vulnerability research.

Drew SchmittDrew Schmitt

Ransomware rebranding is becoming a common technique that ransomware groups are leveraging to obfuscate their operations and remain under the radar. From high-profile groups like Evil Corp to groups like AlphV and Blackbyte, the rebranding process has provided viable solution for extending operational capabilities after high profile attacks. This talk will examine rebranding trends since 2020 and provide a thorough review of the impacts ransomware rebranding has had on the operational capacity of multiple ransomware groups. Lastly, this talk will analyze methods that threat intelligence analysts can utilize to compare traits and behaviors between ransomware groups to determine if the group is a likely rebrand or a new group altogether.

About Drew – Drew Schmitt is the GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team Lead Analyst and is responsible for coordinating threat research, malware analysis, and operationalized intelligence teams. Drew is especially fond of malware research and reverse engineering. When not neck deep in malware, he loves to create new and open-source tools and improve his techniques and capabilities. Drew is also an avid teacher and mentor, and really enjoys helping other people realize their love of malware, threat intelligence, and–above all–making threat actors’ lives harder. In past lives, Drew spent time as an incident responder, threat hunter, and IT administrator.

RVAsec 2023 Videos: Brendan O’Leary & Aliscia Andrews

September 11, 2023
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Brendan O'LearyBrendan O’Leary

The peculiar story of the history of cryptography – featuring a code-breaking Quaker poet

About Brendan – Brendan O’Leary is Head of Community at ProjectDiscovery. He spends his time connecting with developers, security engineers, contributing to open source projects, and sharing his thoughts on cutting-edge technologies on conference panels, meetups, in contributed articles and on blogs.

Aliscia AndrewsAliscia Andrews

Discussion on the importance of a whole of government approach to cyber.

About Aliscia – Aliscia Andrews started her Homeland Security career more than 15 years ago while serving as an Intelligence Analyst and Weapons and Tactics Instructor for the United States Marine Corps. After the Marine Corps, Mrs. Andrews completed her MBA and Cybersecurity Management Certificate from Georgetown University.

After her time in the Marine Corps, Mrs. Andrews, continued honing in her analytical tradecraft in both the public and private sector. Her work portfolio has focused primarily on finding complex solutions to challenging Government problems as a strategic management, analytic, and cyber policy advisor in support of multiple government agencies both in and out of the Intelligence Community.

Today Mrs. Andrews is proud to be the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Virginia. She continues to serve her community as a member and volunteer on multiple PTOs, disadvantaged children’s groups, church ministry groups, youth sports leagues, and mentors transitioning Veterans. Deputy Secretary Andrews resides in Aldie, Virginia with her Husband and three children.

RVAsec 2023 Videos: Fletcher Davis & David Girvin

September 8, 2023
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Fletcher DavisFletcher Davis

With the advancements in defensive capabilities, from endpoint protection to user behavior analytics, operating within mature environments has become more difficult than ever. However, with each of these capabilities comes constraints that Red Teamers can abuse to shift the operational asymmetries and increase their strategic advantage. This talk will discuss how Red Teamers can shift their current operational mental models to abuse these constraints to blend-in more naturally within environments as they seek to complete target objectives.

About Fletcher – Fletcher is currently a Senior Red Team Consultant at CrowdStrike, specializing in Adversary Simulation operations and Offensive Security research.

David GirvinDavid Girvin

AI, it’s all the buzz. We have seen marketing fraudsters at Black Hat called out. Heard sales people use every buzzword they can to try and close. So is it all smoke and mirrors? Or maybe there is pragmatic use for this upcoming technology. I have taken ChatGPT and treated it like an offensive security lab. I trialed many different approaches to using it. In this talk I will show where it can add value in a technical, business and sales role. I will also show how it can fail miserably, it’s security concerns and how its influenced. Will this take your job or add to it? Find out in my talk.

About David – Hacker, BJJ enthusiast, world traveler and surfer. I am a giant weirdo who somehow found my niche in offensive security. I have been blessed getting to build AppSec programs for companies like 1Password and Red Canary. I have an extremely diverse background and hope I can relate and or add value to everyones experience,